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Measuring Affective Advertising: Implications of Low Attention Processing on Recall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2005

ROBERT HEATH  and
AGNES NAIRN
ROBERT HEATH
Affiliation:
University of Bath School of Management <,> Robert.heath@lowattentionprocessing.com
AGNES NAIRN
Affiliation:
University of Bath School of Management<,> mnsacn@management.bath.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article is about affective advertising, defined as that which works more on our emotions and feelings than on our knowledge and beliefs. This sort of advertising can be processed effectively at relatively low levels of attention and as a result does not always perform well on recall measures. We compare the most popular recall-based metric—claimed advertising awareness—against an approach that deduces effectiveness from recognition and find claimed advertising awareness seriously underestimates the effectiveness of the advertising tested.

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Journal of Advertising Research , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 269 - 281
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© Copyright © 1960-2005, The ARF

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